Purpose of this document

Item Nutrition is utilized to tracking nutritional information about an Item using the Healthy Eating Research (HER) methodology.   This document describes the options available for Item Nutrition values and where the Item Nutrition values are available.

Ceres Object release 5.01.60 is required for the functionality described in this document. 

• Items
  • Nutrition FastTab
  • Item Ledger Entries
  • Item Ledger Report View
  • Agency Express
• Orders/Invoices
  • Agency Order
  • Donation Order
  • Purchase Order
  • Agency Order/Invoice Reports
• HER Rating Export
• Related Topics

Items

The Item Card can be accessed from Departments à Warehouse à Planning & Execution à Items.  

Select an Item from the List that displays. 

Nutrition FastTab

The Nutrition FastTab is used for tracking nutritional information about an Item using the Healthy Eating Research (HER) methodology. 

HER Rating:  This field can be set to the HER Rating for the item. 

Not Yet Ranked - color coded black (default value for all Items)

Choose Often – color coded green

Choose Sometimes – color coded yellow

Choose Rarely – color coded red

Assorted, Not Ranked - color coded black

Unranked – color coded black

Non-food – color coded black

HER Rating Date:  This field can be set to the date of HER Rating and is optional.

Item Ledger Entries

The Item Ledger Entries page contains two HER Rating fields.  

HER Rating: This field contains the HER Rating for the Item at the time the transaction was made.

NOTE: The HER Rating field may need to be added to the page via the Choose Columns page customization action.

Current HER Rating: This field contains the current HER Rating for the Item from the Item Card

Item Ledger Report View

The Item Ledger Report View List page contains two HER Rating fields.  

HER Rating: This field contains the HER Rating for the Item at the time the transaction was made.

NOTE: The HER Rating field may need to be added to the page via the Choose Columns page customization action.

Current HER Rating: This field contains the current HER Rating for the Item from the Item Card

Agency Express

The current HER Rating for the Item is included in the Item Master Information (e.g. ITM file) for Agency Express and is available for display on Agency Express 3.   The values sent to Agency Express are:

Not Yet Ranked

Choose Often

Choose Sometimes

Choose Rarely

Assorted

Not Ranked

Unranked

Non-food

Orders/Invoices

Agency Order

The HER Rating for the Item selected is included on the Agency Order Line to indicate the nutritional rating of the Item selected.

Donation Order

The HER Rating for the Item selected is included on the Donation Order Line to indicate the nutritional rating of the Item selected.

Purchase Order

The HER Rating for the Item selected is included on the Purchase Order Line to indicate the nutritional rating of the Item selected.

Agency Order/Invoice Reports

The HER Rating for the Item is included on selected Agency Orders/Invoice reports and can be displayed by selecting the “Display Nutritional Information” option from the request page

Agency Invoice (Report 14012524)

When printing the Agency Invoice, if the “Display Nutritional Information” option is selected on the report request page, the Nutritional Information will be displayed below the row for the Item.

Note: If there are multiple Items on the order with the same Item No. they will be grouped together, and the Nutrition Information will be displayed once at the bottom of the group of Items.

Ceres Agency Order (Report 14012525)

When printing the Ceres Agency Order, if the “Display Nutritional Information” option is selected on the report request page, the Nutritional Information will be displayed below the row for the Item.

Note: If there are multiple Items on the order with the same Item No. they will be grouped together, and the Nutrition Information will be displayed once at the bottom of the group of Items.

Agency Invoice w/ Grant Detail (Report 14012533)

When printing the Agency Invoice w/ Grant Det., if the “Display Nutritional Information” option is selected on the report request page, the Nutritional Information will be displayed below the row for the Item.

Note: If there are multiple Items on the order with the same Item No. they will be grouped together, and the Nutrition Information will be displayed once at the bottom of the group of Items.

HER Rating Export

An Excel export of the Item Leger Entry transactional information including the HER Rating is available at Departments à Warehouse à Inventory à Reports.  

The HER Rating Export contains the following fields:

                Item No.

                Description

                FBC Product Category Code

                UNC Product Category Code

                FBC Product Type Code

                UNC Product Type Code

                Source No. (Vendor No., Donor No., or Agency No.)

                HER Rating (current rating from the Item Card)

                Gross Weight

                Source Type

                Quantity

                Unit of Measure

                Source Type

                Parent Source (Parent Donor/Vendor or Parent Agency)

                Parent Source Name

                Source Name

                Posting Date

                Received Date

                Entry No.

                Document No.

                FBC Product Source Code

                UNC Product Source Code

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